Afternoon, evening, eternal,
Heart like a fist in my chest,
To be honest, I’m almost nocturnal,
To be honest, I need some rest,
A gold and blue halo surrounds me,
I fall to the back of my mind,
A subtle suggestion confounds me:
I’m on my way home, but I’m just along for the ride,
To and away from the city,
The ebb and the flow of the tide,
All of a sudden, it hits me:
I’ve planned out a small suicide,
I thought that the world might be ending,
And then I thought, maybe just me,
But I see no use in pretending
That the ending is all that I see,
I get home, quarter past five,
And I’m not alive,
But I’ll never die,
I’ll just be reborn,
A drop in the storm,
Condense and reform,
Rinse and repeat,
But never again,
‘Cause every song ends,
And I can’t pretend,
I’m tired of singing these same songs,
Why can’t I be done,
And write for the sun,
And not for what’s gone?
When nothing’s to come,
All that remains is more of the same,
But I want to change,
I want to be,
I want to be
I want to be
More than an epitaph,
More than a funeral dirge,
More than a polygraph,
More than the sum of my parts,
More than my bleeding heart,
More than my mind,
More than a satellite,
More than a star,
I want to be.
credits
from Liminal Spaces,
released March 10, 2024
(Feat. Allen Julius)
When not writing third-person bios about himself, Ryan Knowles plays the bass guitar and piano with some level of
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